<span class="content" itxtvisited="1"><font size="2">&nbsp; Now that we have some hardware in our hands and <nobr style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 100%">NVIDIA</nobr> has formally launched the GeForce GTX 295, we are very interested in putting it to the test. NVIDIA's bid to reclaim the halo is quite an interesting one. If you'll remember from our earlier article on the hardware, the GTX 295 is a dual GPU card that features two chips that combine aspects of the GTX 280 and the GTX 260. The expectation should be that this card will fall between GTX 280 SLI and GTX 260 core 216 SLI.</font> <p itxtvisited="1"><font size="2">As for the GTX 295, the GPUs have the TPCs (shader hardware) of the GTX 280 with the memory and pixel power of the GTX 260. This hybrid design gives it lots of shader horsepower with less RAM and raw pixel pushing capability than GTX 280 SLI. This baby should perform better than GTX 260 SLI and slower than GTX 280 SLI<br /> <br /> We've also got another part coming down the pipe from NVIDIA. The GeForce GTX 285 is a 55nm part that amounts to an overclocked GTX 280. Although we don't have any in house yet, this new card was announced on the 8th and will be available for purchase on the 15th of January 2009.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3498">Read more...</a></font></p> </span>